Cash-Gibson, Lucinda (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this ...
Vásquez-Vera, Hugo (Date of defense: 2020-02-06)
La inseguridad residencial por motivos económicos es un grave problema de salud pública que ha aumentado en los últimos años en el Estado español. Incluye diversas situaciones como el no poder pagar el ...
Prado Bert, Paula de (Date of defense: 2022-10-17)
L'exposició a factors de risc ambientals durant la vida intrauterina o la infància ha estat relacionada amb un major risc a desenvolupar diverses malalties. Tot i això, els mecanismes biològics subjacents ...
Ayala García, Amaya (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
The project focuses on cancer and its effects on work trajectories from a life course perspective, both from a qualitative and quantitative approach. Quantitative analyses were based on a retrospective ...
Fares, Hani (Date of defense: 2022-07-05)
Refugees and asylum-seekers often encounter situations in which their health and well-being are compromised. Despite their health needs, access to healthcare is often restricted in host countries, and ...
Parés-Badell, Oleguer (Date of defense: 2021-02-01)
Harm reduction is a set of programs and interventions that aim to reduce health and social harms of drug use. The Barcelona model aims to maximize access to harm reduction services and to integrate them ...
Dimitrova, Asya (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
El primer estudio de esta tesis doctoral demostró que tanto las temperaturas ambientales altas como las bajas y las olas de calor son factores de riesgo de mortalidad por todas las causas en la India, ...
Pascual Argente, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)
The objective of this work is the evaluation of the impact of new direct acting antivirals for Hepatitis C as a case of disruptive healthcare innovation that challenged healthcare systems. Two systematic ...
Gignac, Florence (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)
The short-term effects of air pollution on brain health have come under investigation only recently. Since environmental health studies are often developed entirely by scientists, citizen science is a ...
Torres Toda, Maria (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)
La urbanització mundial de la població està incrementat ràpidament. Aquesta actual vida en àrees urbanes pot fomentar una major exposició a certs contaminats, als estils de vida sedentaris, a nivells ...